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THE CHINA MAIL; JANUARY 6, 1939.

The Man Who Stood Up to Hitler

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script that was to be in coming

of this model prison-house. It com-years the best seller in the world. manded a wide prospect and was

Like Napoleon in exile on Elba, comfortably furnished with bed,

Hitler had already begun to build chair, cabinet and large writing the Legend of the Lost Leader

with a view to his early rediscovery and re-employment,

table.

In the evening Hitler was allow- ed to talk with his fellow prisoners. Visitors called frequently, bringing is a mixture of bombast and shrewd Mein Kampf is full of glosses. It gifts so many that he distributed ideas deep buried under layers of them among his warders. After anonsense. It repeats a few central month the privileged prisoner could propositions over and over again, walk for two hours a day outside in accordance with the Hitler prac- the fortress walls. His food was the tice of "ramming it home." It is a same as that of the Governor's staff. spoken, not a written book. In its The spring days did not regener-first nine years it sold only 25,000 ate him. He continued morose, In-copies; not until the author became activity was boredom to this fun-Chancellor of the Reich did it soar damentally lazy man. The mood of into the million sale. The student of frustration returned, and weighed Hitlerism should be eternally grate- on him. Hess, who was gaoled with ful that it was written, for here is him, pressed a new diversion on the the authenic self-portrait of Hitler thwarted artist, architect, soldier warts (involuntarily. included) and and politician. Let him turn author,

all. perhaps prophet, giving the world his testament!

Following on a heavy snowstorm on Dec. 20, there was another storm of blizzard-like force at Biggin Hill, Westerham, the next day, with the result that the roads, only twenty miles from London were rendered impassable and gangs of men were needed to cut a path for vehicles. Photo shows men at work clearing a road at Biggin Hill while a bus passes slowly over part of the road already cleared.

or in talking of guilt in the case of The same forces which had work- persons who all, perhaps, clung to】ed for his easy sentence now operat- their nation with equal love with ed to curtail it. On December 20, the depth of their hearts, but mere-1924, while they were fixing up a He said nothing of the dramatic ly missed the common road or failed Christmas tree in his "cell" the or- days and doings which had landed to agree regarding it.” Hitler awoke from his trance. The him in Landsberg. "I shall not here

der arrived to release him. story of his life (he was 35) and attempt

Here, indeed, is a new Hitler. Wearing the old trench coat of to describe the events "Quiet and sensible, sober, indus-the blood-and-thunder days of the struggle, Mein Kampf! A typewriter which led to and decided those of trious, modest," said the official re- Munich streets he took his leave. was installed, he began to dictate|November 1923; because I do not port. Hitler wanted to get out. At the gate the Governor shook his (this prisoner had his secretary!). think it will be of any profit for the The Party was slipping from his hand. He added, "Herr Hitler, I also Long into the Bavarian summer future, and because there is really control. "It will take me five years am a National Socialist." nights the light burned in his room no point in tearing open and the keys clicked over the type- which are still hardly scabbed over, Hess.

wounds to straighten things up" he said to

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